Like other types of content on RunnerSpace, there are several ways of adding results to your event site.  This tutorial will show you the best way to do it and we'll show you some of the best practices along the way.  

Adding Results refers to adding the complete list of results for an entire track, cross country meet, or road race.  It doesn't refer to adding partial results.  If you wish to add partial results (i.e. a brief recap of a meet, results for one event, results for only distance races, etc.) you should do it by adding a News Article as opposed to a Results Article, and it should be categorized under "Recap."  You'll also want to use this method if you decide to accompany your full results with a story.  Only a simple listing of full results should be used whenever you are Adding Results.  Click this link to read our tutorial on News/Document Posting.  

Let's add results!

First, as always, be sure you are logged into your RunnerSpace account.  

Go to the event page you wish to add results to.  We're going to teach you how to add results to an event page you have created.  It is possible to add results to an event that already exists on the network, but as this is a Basics article, we'll stick to the simple stuff to help you get started.  

So, now that you're at the homepage of your event, click on the Info/Results tab.  

On the left side of the page, you'll see the History box for your event.  You'll need to make sure the year that your results are from has been created.  If it appears it has been created, if not, create it!

If you need to add a year, follow this, if not, skip down to Add Results.

Click on the Add Year button

Select the year as well as the start and end dates of your event.  You'll also see, in yellow font, at the top of the popup window a checked box indicating that you wish to make the year you're creating the current year.  If you select a past year, like 2004, your event site will set that to the current year, and any other content you add will be put into the 2004 folder.  So, if you're uploading old results from past years, be sure to uncheck this box before clicking "Add New Year."

Refresh the page in your browser, and now you should see the year you just created in the History box.  

Add Results

Now that you know the year exists in the history for your event site, you can add results for that year.  Click on Add Results.

A popup box titled "Add a News Article" will appear.  That's correct, that's what you want to see.  A Results article is just a News article that has been categorized and formatted in the most appropriate way for a Results article, and will be fed into your history box such that it appears as an article under both News and Results, rather than just News.  

You will also see that much of the form has already been filled out automatically.  The upload date will be set to today's date, but the creation date will be set to the date of the event.  

Just like a News article, you can attach a file to your article.  If your Full Results are in an image form, like a PDF, you can click Attach a File to upload that PDF to your Results article.  As a common practice, we try, as often as possible, to paste results into the description rather than attaching a file that forces users to download and open an attachment in order to see the results.  Having the full results appear in the description field provides a cleaner presentation and a much simpler and easier user experience when they come to your site looking for results.  If there is any way your timing company or meet director can provide you with a text document or HTML version of the results that you can easily copy and paste into the description, we strongly recommend you use this method every time you Add Results to your event site.  

The Category will be set to Full Results.  It's this category that causes the link under Results in the History box to appear.  Only full results listings, not partial listings as described above, should be used for this category.  

The sport and event levels are set, and the tags that were created when the event page was created have been pulled in to be used in this article as well.  

The article is already attached to the event site, but if you wish to attach it to additional pages, check out our "Attaching / Tagging / #Hashtags Basics" tutorial to get help on how to do that.  

Click on Attachment Options.

Most often, a meet director or a site administrator will be posting Full Results.  As an admin for this event site, you have the ability to publish articles as the event, rather than as your own account on RunnerSpace.  So, when you upload the results, they will appear as being "Published by: [your event name here]," rather than "Published by Joe Shmoe."  

You also have the ability to link the article directly to your event page.  That is to say that if someone clicks a link to your results article, for example, when an article can be found in multiple places on RunnerSpace (i.e. the home page, a state page, the High School or College page, your profile, etc.) that user will be brought directly to your event page to view the results.  This will really help drive traffic directly to your event site!  

The title to your results article is also pre-set to the format we most commonly use for our results articles.  

Essentially, your biggest job is to paste the results into the description!  But there is a trick . . .

Much of the time you will be working with pre-formatted text (i.e. Hy-tek results in neat columns).  If you're not a perfectionist, it's ok to paste directly into the Description field, click Add Article, and be done with it.  If you are going for an exact match of the text you're looking at, click on the teeny, tiny HTML link, located to the left of the happy face in your editor buttons.  

This will pop open another window for you to enter your text into along with any HTML code you know you want to use.  Most users won't be familiar with all the things HTML code can do, so we'll show you one basic we think you'll like.  

Before pasting in your results, type this in:

This will tell the description field that you have pre-formatted text, and you don't want it to be messed with! The most common thing it helps with is keeping the same font you're pasting in rather than switching your text to our default font, which can throw off the spacing of your columns. Traditional HTML code says you should then paste your text in, and then type this in after it.

This shows the end of your pre-formatted text, but our site automatically puts that in for you, so you really can skip this step. Click "Update" at the bottom right and you'll see your originally formatted text will appear in the description.

You're done, click Add Article!